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Show FEAR EMBROILMENT WITH UNITED STATES BRITISH SECRETARY OF WAR SEES DANGER OF CLASH OVER IRELAND. Visions of England Aiding North and America South Ireland Are Presented Pre-sented in Address Delivered by British Official. Dundee, Scotland. Danger of embroilment em-broilment with the United States if the north and south of Ireland were left to fight out their own differences was predicted by Winston Spencer Churchill, the secretary of war, in his speech Sunday night, in which he referred re-ferred at length to the Irish situation. Mr. Churchill, after asserting that such a course would lead to civil war "on such an organized scale that it would be disastrous and more terrible than could be imagined," declared that it would mean that in England sympathy sym-pathy would develop in favor of Ulster. Ul-ster. Influential persons in the United States, li,e said, sympathized with the south of Ireland, and while volunteers would leave England for the north of Ireland, reinforcements would come from the United States for the south. That, added the war secretary, would create such tension that Great Britain would be faced with the greatest great-est danger with which it could be confronted, con-fronted, namely, a quarrel with the United States. "Two or three years more o? what we are going through," he added, "appears "ap-pears better to me than that we should leave Ireland to herself and thus open the floodgates of organized war and later embroil us with the United States." Mr. Churchill previously in his speech had declared that the reign of terror in" Ireland would be suppressed, and that it would then be time for a complete and permanent settlement of the Irish question. |